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Leah Levy, 22, has created Levity Hammocks – a company taking old canopies and converting to useful products – hammocks, swings, chairs, bags, bracelets and more… MEET THE MAKER Leah Levy, the founder of an ingenious new company called Levity Hammocks & Swings, is one of those impressionable people you can’t help but remember long

At just 17, Fatima Al Khalifa is representing her country, Bahrain, at the 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving, hosted at Gravity, 25-28 October. She talks about what competitive sport at an early age has taught her – “You will fail many times before you succeed”. How did you start flying, Fatima? The first

Another article by Skydive Spaceland in the Spaceland Safety Series… Look for Misrouted Chest Straps Want to be a hero? Keep an eye on your friends’ gear when they’re getting ready to skydive or sitting in the plane. It can be easy to misroute a chest strap when you’re inexperienced, in a hurry, or just

1st FAI World Canopy Piloting Freestyle Championships & 7th FAI World Canopy Piloting Championships in Wroclaw, Poland – Nicolas Batsch (USA) und Abdulbari Qubaisi (UAE) claim the World Championship titles! Best Of 7th FAI World CP Championships 2018 – Wroclaw (POL), by Quattro Media First FAI Freestyle Championships It was a week full of airsports

Most dropzones have them in some form or another. The instructors keep their eyes peeled on them. Some jumpers swoop along them. Every now and again a skydiver crosses them. The only difference is those DZs that enforce them religiously and those that don’t. I’m talking about beer lines. What? For the uninitiated the beer

At just 17, Fatima Al Khalifa is representing her country, Bahrain, at the 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving, hosted at Gravity, 25-28 October. She talks about what competitive sport at an early age has taught her – “You will fail many times before you succeed”. How did you start flying, Fatima? The first

Austria – Picture Perfect?! Austria… the name conjured up spectacular images of stunning snowy mountains, lush green valleys, swathes of Christmas tree forests, Sound-of-Music style. I had never been to Austria so I jumped at the chance when Markus Kordesch invited me to the Hohenems Challenge 2018. It couldn’t possibly be as picture-perfect as I

I’ll start this article by screaming just WOOOOOOOW!!!! The answer is ‘YES’! Dreaming about jumping over the ancient Egyptian Pyramids in Egypt was somewhere at the back of all my thoughts but constantly shining through in my head. One day I received a message from Mahmoud Sharaf, the organiser of the event, asking if I